Originally posted by normhead ...
Fast AF and burst , buy the camera you want, the specs you want, then add $1000-$3000 to the price, and accept a smaller image with less resolution. That's reality. Now honestly how many of you are in position to say, "I'll buy that."
I suspect Pentax knows how few will actually make that purchase.
The interesting thing to me is ho many think they are a person who would. There are folks complaining about the price of the KP. A D500 is a lot more.
Pentax has always been IQ first, and then make the best use of available technology without getting all cutting edge. Cutting edge is never value for money. And they have stated as a company, video is not their priority. So what is all this video stuff bein tossed around?
People who should know better asking Pentax to do something, that Pentax has definitely stated they are not doing. Pentax isn't going to change. There are some people who need to.
I fail to see how this relates to my reply, as I was talking about the improvements (waiting for pics) in IQ and AF.
Never mentioned video, don't care.
My mention to burst was not a reason to cut it down vs K-3, merely stating that the new accelerator unit might make the buffer issue a non-issue, so actually the opposite.
I don't know what a D500 can do, only what I hear here, so the comparison was purely K-3II vs KP,
paper specs only.
I don't think that's worth a 50% premium, unless they brought IQ to near-FF levels, because then the price differences would be in line with features+IQ differences (K-3/KP/K-1).
As for buying, I will when I see something that makes a real difference from the K-3 (not really interested in FF, so K-1 not part of this evaluation), not just small improvements (to be confirmed) for a big price difference.